Microsoft announced the other day in a blog post that they are firmly backing the use of H.264 (as opposed to WebM) codec in HTML5 native expressions of embedded video. This comes shortly after Google announced that they would not support the MPEG LA licensed standard in its Chrome browser in favor of the open WebM standard. Read More →
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Sara Watson on February 4, 2011
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Sara Watson on November 11, 2010
Back in March, Brightcove announced early support for HTML5 experiences. And Brightcove has supported HTML5 in a basic form since 2008, when we introduced support for the H.264 format. Read More →
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Jeff Whatcott on May 19, 2010
Google's release of the new open source, royalty-free WebM video format and VP8 codec is big news today. Brightcove is enthusiastically joining Google, Mozilla, Opera, Adobe, and others in pledging support for WebM. Our COO and CTO are on stage out at Google I/O to tell the crowd what we're up to. As you will see below, we believe that WebM is changing the landscape of online video in important ways that you'll want to understand. Read More →
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Dave Witting on February 21, 2010
At Brightcove Account Management, we're always looking for better ways to keep our partners informed. As a team, we share these little tidbits internally and I thought it might be fun to broaden the distribution. If you have suggestions, please shoot me a note or add a comment. Read More →
